THE ENCHANTED ISLAND

to topple and fall, and the people began to scream and to
yell and to shout, and the waters of the sea began to lash
and to roar, and the wind began to bellow and howl.
Then it was a good thing for King Selim that he wore
Luck’s Ring; for, though all the beautiful snow-white
palace about him and above him began to crumble to
pieces like slaked lime, the sticks and the stones and
.the beams to fall this side of him and that, he crawled

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out from under it without a scratch or a bruise, like a
rat out of a cellar.

That is what Luck’s Ring did for him.

But his troubles were not over yet; for, just as he
came out from under all the ruin, the island began to
sink down into the water, carrying everything along with
it—that is, everything but him and one thing else. That
one other thing was an empty boat, and King Selim
climbed into it, and nothing else saved him from drown-
ing. It was Luck’s Ring that did that for him also.

The boat floated on and on until it came to another
island that was just like the island he had left, only

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